Saturday, August 01, 2009

Search terms

Further down, there are fifteen other variations on the yellow fuzzy caterpillar theme, and even more versions with misspellings of caterpillar or yellow.

This topic came up the other night at the Blount County Blogger dinner... what is the top search term for your blog? Mine tends to vary seasonally, but year in and year out, the overall winner is always... yellow fuzzy caterpillar.

Blue snake usually comes in second.

I used to look at my stats compulsively, but these days I tend to forget for weeks at a time. So if anyone's sent me a rash of traffic, I apologize for not thanking you properly. The stats roll over after about a day, since I'm cheap and don't pay for the extended version.

We also talked about answering comments, and I admitted that I'd been kind of slack in that regard, especially lately. If I've ignored your comment, it wasn't on purpose. I just tend to put things off, or get started doing something else, and then forget. I wish there were a pill for that.

18 comments:

I hadn't checked mine in a while either, but I just looked, and it seems I get hits from people looking for pictures of squash.

The yellow fuzzy caterpillar searches remind me of googling for hornworms before I knew what they were called. I tried a few different searches, but "giant green worm eating my tomatoes" pulled up the best results!

I had to check after I read this. I don't get that many hits from search words, most of mine come from links to other blogs. I did get one from bigfoot hunting in Blount County which to my knowledge I have never written about although I think I used the word bigfoot once.

The top search I get is for people looking for Ina Garten's Flag Cake. I've been getting alot of hits lately from people looking for answers to the metalic taste in their mouth from Pine Nuts (tainted product from outside the country)

Lovely blogs y'all have. It's so odd seeing "green" in the background. Out here in Santa Bar-B-Que we are dry and tinderlike. Even our green has a brown (come burn me) tinge to it.

Patsy, I've gotten hits from that too. Must be all the woods in Blount Co.

Laura, LOL. For gardens, maybe? I've read that it's the only manure that you don't have to compost before putting on your garden.

Jill, that Pine Nut thing is terrible! I'm scared to eat them now. Yeah, we're having a much greener summer this year than last (which was more like yours, except without so many fires).

Ericka, you have to put some code on your site from one of the counters, and then you can go and see how people reach your blog. Right now I'm using StatCounter. It is really hilarious, the search terms you see sometimes.

I just wanted to stop by and say thanks. I resolved the issue with blogger comments thanks to your inquiry and post a few months ago that I found today. I left a problem resolution for others on that post as well. If anybody else needs that fix. Here is the resolution.http://livesmartbook.blogspot.com/2009/08/problems-with-blogger-comments.htmlThanks again. Nice blog, I will add it to my roll.

I just checked out your Natural Impulse site. Nice products. I blog about health, wellness, disease prevention, sustainability, green living and advocacy for all these issues. I'm putting together a list of sites that I am featuring in an upcoming post targeted toward entrepreneurial women and will add your site to the list. You can feel free to copy and paste the post to your site as it is targeted to help boost the rankings and traffic of each of those sites as well as blogs. Just link back to my blog if you would please. Thanks. Keep an eye out. I will try to have that post up on Friday or Saturday of this week.

Neat, I think I even landed here once looking for fuzzy yellow caterpillars....and of course from Pure Florida too.I think mine are Reese Cates, who is a bull rider, growing lettuce indoors and foxtail ferns...

I think your blog is the hella BOMB, so I enjoy how ever many posts I get! Sure it's nice to get a dialog going in comments, but actual life always takes precedent over virtual...among the well-grounded, anyway! (Besides, you have fantastic soap to make!:)

About Me

Living in rural north central Alabama. Currently overstocked with pets and poultry. Having lived in several small towns and larger cities, country life is taking some getting used to.
A refugee from the corporate world since 1996, I'm the proprietor of a handmade soap company called Natural Impulse.
The photo is of Jasmine, fearless protector of the homestead from coyotes, bobcats, deer, herons, airplanes, butterflies and fuzzy little bunnies.
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